Learn to Draw: Still Life with Amy Wynne

Amy Wynne

Learn to Draw: Still Life
  • 6 video lessons
  • 47 minutes of class content
  • Streaming access on desktop and mobile browsers
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Join instructor and professional painter, Amy Wynne, as she teaches this introduction to still life. She’ll share how to create symbolism and meaning in a still life. Amy will also  share the different genres in still life such as fertility/decay, vanitas, self portrait with objects, and nature.

In this class, Amy will cover:

  • Still life Composition: working with the Rule of 3rds and strengthening negative space
  • Depth: varying scale
  • Value: transitioning color to monochrome and creating tonal gradient
  • Lighting: Mapping lights and darks and creating tonal rhythm

Amy will end the course with a series of drawing challenges to get you drawing more every day! She’ll challenge you to draw of a motif, developing a creative habit.

Amy has been teaching painting and drawing for over 20 years at colleges across New England including the Rhode Island School of Design.

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Amy Wynne

Amy Wynne

Amy Wynne received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the New York Academy of Art in Manhattan and her BA from Smith College in Art History and Cultural Anthropology. She has been teaching painting and drawing for over 25 years.

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  • Katherine M. Feb 24, 2025

    Amy brought to the surface so many principals of a good drawing that I was either unaware of or hadn’t consciously paid attention to, but now I can begin to apply these concepts more directly. Thank you Amy.

  • Barry M. May 10, 2024

    enjoyed, greatly instructed, many thanks

  • Gina N. May 19, 2020

    Great class. Thank you Amy for your insight. The section on value was one of the best I've come upon. Now to start my challenge.

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